Key Databases

A very comprehensive source from the Modern Literature Association in the United States covering journals, books and dissertations in literature, literary theory and criticism and dramatic arts. Many Australian works are covered. There are links to full text articles in other databases.

The authoritative Australian database for works by more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organisations from 1780 to the present. Only a small part of Austlit is fulltext so you must check the Library Search or the Database eJournals list at to see if ACU holds the title in print or online.

Key Journals

A peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles, interviews, and production casebooks on world theatre by Australasian and international scholars.The journal also publishes reviews of scholarly books and published playtexts.

Publishes work which explores the various facets—textual, figural, spatial, historical, political and economic—of the colonial encounter, and the ways in which this encounter shaped the West and non-West alike